From: Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Cc: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
Subject: Re: Suboptimal German hyphenation
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 06:49:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <63cc9660-b1c1-22ed-440e-eef2830de932@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee3adcc0-4fc2-45df-ae03-57e9978b14fd@gmail.com>
Am 29.09.22 um 06:10 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context:
> Max Chernoff via ntg-context schrieb am 29.09.2022 um 02:17:
>> Babel/ngerman sets left/righthyphenmin to 2/2, but ConTeXt sets those to
>> 3/3 for German. (The English default is 2/3). I don't speak German so I
>> have no idea which is correct, but you can get the same behaviour in
>> ConTeXt with:
>>
>> \mainlanguage[de]
>> \lefthyphenmin=2
>> \righthyphenmin=2
>
> You can use \setuplanguage to change the values.
>
> \setuplanguage
> [de]
> [ lefthyphenmin=2,
> righthyphenmin=2]
Thank you, Leah, Max and Wolfgang! I changed that immediately in all of
my ongoing projects, but I don’t think we should change the default
after all these years.
published: https://literatur.social/@fiee/109079837141552277
Hraban
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-28 22:24 Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context
2022-09-29 0:17 ` Max Chernoff via ntg-context
2022-09-29 0:44 ` Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context
2022-10-19 14:47 ` Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context
2022-10-19 18:02 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2022-10-31 7:47 ` Denis Maier via ntg-context
2022-09-29 4:10 ` Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context
2022-09-29 4:49 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context [this message]
2022-09-29 6:27 ` Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
2022-09-29 6:53 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
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